leave as is, or clean?

Article about: greetings all, I am not a collector per se, but I do have a few small family items. One non family piece I purchased was a ground dug helmet. (just wanted one) I purchased it in 2002 and it

leave as is, or clean?

greetings all, I am not a collector per se, but I do have a few small family items. One non family piece I purchased was a ground dug helmet. (just wanted one) I purchased it in 2002 and it has sat in a case. From looking at recent threads on here, I am wondering if i should attempt to clean it, or leave as is. You can see there is quite a bit of surviving paint....opinions?

Re: leave as is, or clean?

Re: leave as is, or clean?

It depends on what you are hoping to achieve by cleaning. Personally, i would think, as it's a Dug Relic, that since there isn't any real way to restore or do much with it, that I would probably leave it as it is. Otherwise, you will lose the "dug look" and end up with something that's halfway between a Relic and a Rebuild.

Re: leave as is, or clean?

It looks as if there are very thin points on the helmet, which may , if cleaned with any type of corrosive, become more fragile, that will ruin the look of this piece, its survived this long in its present state therefore i would suggest leaving well alone

Re: leave as is, or clean?

Re: leave as is, or clean?

by vbk76

greetings all, I am not a collector per se, but I do have a few small family items. One non family piece I purchased was a ground dug helmet. (just wanted one) I purchased it in 2002 and it has sat in a case. From looking at recent threads on here, I am wondering if i should attempt to clean it, or leave as is. You can see there is quite a bit of surviving paint....opinions?